Has anyone ever purchased a pu-erh from mightyleaf.com? In particular I was looking at a brick called Horse Pu-erh, 2002. Obviously, the brick hasn't been fermenting for very long, but the brick is beautiful.

If you are after cooked puerh I'd recommend this as a good and very reasonably priced one to start with. Just don't buy any of the fancier looking blocks also offered as they are lower quality (I know that by buying them). The general rule for cooked puerh is that compressed blocks are "generally" higher quality than loose and that larger tuocha like that one are "generally" better then the small mini blocks.

You are definitely looking for a cooked puerh then. I'd say that the 100g tuo cha I recommended below is actually middle of the road as well as fairly cheap. Its better than the loose and mini-blocks, but its cheaper than the higher quality larger cooks cakes that I'm currently looking into trying myself once I can decide on a good one or two to buy to start out.

TeaFanatic wrote:Really I'm looking for any type of pu-erh to try, but I'm trying to go middle of the road(good quality but still kinda cheap). Any website recommedations?

Middle of the road? Taking your words literally, then I recommend this pu-erh: click here.

It's mixed with raw and cooked leaves, but mostly cooked. I just had a sample of it recently, and it's pretty decent. Earthy, woody and slighly floral. As with cooked pu-erh, it's smooth...and this one had a texture of drinking whole milk. The only draw back is you have to pay for shipping from China and wait 3 weeks for it to come.

That mighty leaf website doesn't even indicate the weight of the horse pu-erh brick. For $32, it's very overpriced, unless it's a 1 or 2 kg brick.